USMC bazooka team on Iwo Jima, March 12, 1945.

The Sands of Iwo Jima

This is "Ricky", a decorated member of the USMC 6th War Dog Platoon, in action on Iwo Jima in 1945. Despite the debilitating heat, the dogs performed extremely well, so much so that Japanese snipers made the dogs priority targets. War dogs recorded several kills in direct combat with Japanese troops, and their ferocity and loyalty have become legendary in the Marine Corps.
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Wardog 'Ricky'

As the Marines landed, the Japanese military fled, leaving the aged, the infirm, and the too-small children in the path of the Leathernecks. Marine Corporal Fenwick H. Dunn of Lynn, Massachusetts, shares the candy from his K ration with an aged woman. 